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Oink No More

So now that Oink is gone and the record industry got back those 180,000 people, will we see sales increase over the next couple of weeks? I’m personally all for the argument that downloading music increases the chances of me making a purchase in the future. Wether it be opening my pocket to see the band live, purchasing their product, and/or spreading the word to others who would do the same.

“This extremely lucrative and creative scheme consisted of a private file-sharing website being set up.”

Creative scheme? Bit Torrent is a “creative scheme”, created by Oink? Are the police just trying to put this into news friendly terms? Or do they seriously misunderstand the site they’ve been investigating for the past 2 years?

OiNK Database Didn’t ‘Self Destruct’, Wasn’t Encrypted But Users Safe?
“Following the raid at OiNK, many of the 180,000 members are very concerned about what’s happening with their details. The rumor: The OiNK database was encrypted and self-destructed. The truth: It wasn’t and it didn’t but ex-users still might be safe.” … “the logs we store aren’t enough to incriminate users.”